Portable furnace



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

NATHANIEL T. EDSON, OF NENV ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

PORTABLE FURNACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,118, dated May 12,1891.

Application filed March 12, 1888. Renewed April 17, 1891. Serial No.389,261. (No model.)

may be removed when so worn or deteriorated as to be useless; second, af urnace-iron third, a sliding door. I attain these objects by themechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1isavertical section of the furnace. Fig. 2 is a top view of the same.Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the door.

Similarletters refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

A is the clay part of the furnace. metal part of the same.

D is the door.

The ash-pit w is formed in the metal part of the furnace.

s is the bottom of the ash-pit.

e is an opening through the side of the ashpit.

fare ventilating-openin gs formed below the ash-pit, to admit of acirculation of air.

B is the g are knobs formed on the top edge of the clay part of thefurnace.

h is a furnace-iron on which to place cookin g utensils, the centralpart of which incloses one of the knobs g and its ends the other knobs,thereby securing the iron from displacement.

The end of door D is bent to form handle I, the end of which handlerests against the outside of ash-pit w, aboveand below opening 6, thusholding the door against the in side of the ash-pit.

7; k are slots formed in the vdoor-handle, in which slots the edges ofopenings 6 enter. The door when closed prevents sparks and cinders fromfalling out of the ash-pit and when open admits of the removal of ashestherefrom. Inadjusting the door it is placed in the ash-pit with theclay part of the furnace off the metal part. The end of the door iselevated and its handle put out through opening c, then its elevated enddropped down with the top edge of opening e entering one of the slots7;, and the bottom edge of the opening entering the other slot 7;.

Z are ears attached to the metal part of the furnace, to which handle 0"is attached.

m is an integral grate forming the bottom of the clay part of thefurnace.

n are brackets attached to the inner side of the metal part of thefurnace on which the clay part rests.

0 is a recess formed in the inside of the metal part of the furnace,into which the edge of the ash-pit bottom enters, and which, with lips19, formed in making openingsf, hold the ash-pit bottom in place.

WhatI claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a portable furnace, of a clay part A, having anintegral grate forming its bottom, with a metal part B, having ash-pit wand opening 6, substantially as set forth.

2. In a portable furnace, the combination of clay part A, having anintegral grate m, With a metal part B, having ash-pit to, opening 6, andopenings f, substantially as described.

3. The door D, having handle I and slots 70 7c, in combination with claypart A and metal part B, all substantially as set forth.

4. In portable furnaces, the combination of clay part A, having anintegral grate m, forming its bottom, with a metal part B, havingopening 6, cars Z, and handle r,- substantially as described.

I NATHANIEL T. EDSON. Witnesses:

D. W. SPIEs,

ANDREW HEws.

